The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-11-08

a man SlaSneS his WIG with a
Eazor-Her Windpipe Laid Open
The Man Escaped-Supposed Mo-
tive jealousy Hope for the Vic
tim.
On the Slst inst, Marshal Kaulu-
kon was notified by telephone from
the other side Of this island that man
named Kahopuahiki, living at Kaawa,
Koolau, had cut his wife Hookano
terribly about the neck and shoulders
The Marshal Immediately ordered
DIR. Wood, Government physician at
Kaneohe, to proceed to the scene of
the tragedy. AT first the doctor OBJ
jected, saying it was beyond his dis
Jrict. But the Marshal insisted on his
going, as the case was urgent, and at
the same time sent word to the Deputy
Sheriff of Koolaupoko, Robert Maka-
halupa, to accompany the doctor to
the place
The Deputy Sheriff arrived at Ka-
ava at 1880 and DR.. Wood half an
hour later The former reported par
ticulars of the case, in substance as
follows, TO the Marshal about mid
night
They found the woman had lost
much blood from about a dozen
wounds on the head, face, neck and
shoulders. Two of the most serious
cuts intersected at right angles on the
thrOat-one crosswise and the other
vertically in the hollow above the
breastbone. The windpipe was sew
cred and piece of velvet had to be
held over it with the fingers to pre-
tl,a ha.on+h 4I,,.n,,ol, 1,,a
wound. There were two cuts on the
right shoulder, one quite deep and
three inches in length, the other not
x bad. Other two cuts were in the
1tft shoulder, the worse one three
inches in length and reaching near to
the lateral wound in the throat.
There was a slash on the left side of
the head about an inch up and down
behind the ear. Another wound on
the back of the head the woman said
was inflicted with a pair OF scissors. A
vertical cut appeared in the middle of
the chin, another of two inches in the
same direction below the left eve.
from which it is believed the cut in
the chin was an extension. Over the
left eye was another not very deep
cut, while there was still another up
and down the left side of the nose.
The woman's left hand was also
slashed across the fingers, this being
done when she tried to get the weapon
away from her desperate husband.
DIR. Wood attended first to the most
serious wounds in the throat, washing
them and sewing them up, so that by
three o'clock the woman was able to
breathe through her mouth. She is
q very robust woman and after having
her wounds dressed showed ability to
move about, but the doctor enioined
upon her the necessity for keeping
quiet in the house till the healing pro-
cess is advanced. When the Koolau-
poke Deputy Sheriffleft at five o'clock,
being relieved by the Deputy of Koo
lauloa, the patient was resting easy
though the doctor said she was in a
very bad condition.
1t appears that four weeks previous
Hookano came to Honolulu to put
some of her children to school. When
absent from home three weeks her
D. husband became somewhat deranged,
running away to seclude himself at the
Pali He returned from his lonely
hermitage, however, but exhibited a
disposition of extreme jealousy toward
his wife after her arrival from Homo
lulu.
Monday morning between three
and four o'clock-estimated by the
growing of the ROSTERS, as there is no
timepiece in the house-KahOpuahiki
cot up and said:
This is our time. I am going to
kill YOU"
There were two of the children at
home. One of them, n little boy Of
nine years, hearing his fathers
awful threat, SpTang up and 60
ing bravely to the rescue of his
mother, tried to get her out of the
way. His father rudely flung the
child aside, and proceeded with the
murderous work already begun. The
lad ran off to an adjoining house
where two grown brothers live On
rushing to their fathers house the
young men found their mother lying
on the ground outside, where she had
fallen exhausted by the fearful struggle
and loss of blood.
Lifting theirmother's bleeding form,
the men found, sticking in her hair, a
blood-stained razor with which, doubt
less, the horrible cutting was done.
Their fathers clothes were found in
his room, but he had disappeared.
The veranda door standing open gave
the only clue to the direction in which
he had fled
All day the two Deputy Sheriffs
with several officers were securing the
country in search of the guilty wretch,
but up to midnight no trace of him
was discovered. He was however, cap
fmed Tuesday morning last